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A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Cæsalpinia.

A bursting into flower; a blossoming. Martyn.

Expanding into flowers; blossoming.

Bloom; blossom. [Obs.] J. Scott.

Flowery; blossoming. [Obs.] Blount.

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

A plant which flowers or blossoms. Many hybrids are profuse and persistent flowerers. Darwin.

-- Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.

Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.

A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.

Like a perfect blossom. "Full-bloomed lips." Crashaw.

Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose. Denham.

The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Dr. Prior.

To put forth in the form of buds. "Gemmed their blossoms." [R.] Milton.

t now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.

A genus of climbing plants with very showy lilylike blossoms, natives of India.

te heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandenscent. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. Pope.

American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell- shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist.

olden chain (Bot.), the shrub Cytisus Laburnum, so named from its long clusters of yellow blossoms. -- Golden club (Bot.), an aquatic plant (Orontium aquaticum), bearing a thick spike of minute yellow flowers. -- Golden cup (Bot.), the buttercup. -- Golden eagle (Zoöl.), a large and powerful eagle (Aquila Chrysaëtos…

A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor. Grog blossom, a redness on the nose or face of persons who drink ardent spirits to excess. [Collog.]